Notices by Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)

[2/2] to kill lots of people, that will occur to some politicians. If our governments has real courage, they would defeat the real enemies - the planet roasters - now, and implement the better solutions to avoid the suffering that is likely to cause wars.

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/18/countries-must-bolster-climate-efforts-or-risk-war-cop30-chief-executive-warns
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#planet
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_April_2024_(World_Bank_and_IMF_meet_on_polycrisis)

*Countries must bolster climate [defense] efforts or risk war, Cop30 chief executive warns.* To start a war today over future scarcities and dangers would be unlikely, but once those scarcities and dangers start

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/trump-cuts-great-lakes
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker

*Environmentalists fear effects of the wrecker's clean water funding cuts on Great Lakes.*

https://act.stand.earth/page/82841/petition/1

US citizens: call on Santander Bank to stop investing in deforestation and covering it up with greenwashing.

https://theintercept.com/2025/05/23/podcast-el-salvador-cecot-prison-bukele-trump-immigrants/

President Bukele of El Salvador has jailed a prominent anti-corruption lawyer. I wonder if they tattooed her with alleged "gang symbols".

[2/2] judiciary too weak to restrain them. The campaign to bully law firms to refuse to work for his victims is another method of making the courts powerless. *US judge overturns [the bully's] order targeting major law firm Jenner & Block.*

[1/2] https://www.justsecurity.org/113529/terrible-idea-contempt-court/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/23/judge-overturns-trump-order-jenner-block-law

Explaining the part of the Big Bad Bill that would make nearly all existing court orders in the US unenforceable. Republicans control Congress and the presidency, and have demonstrated their intention to convert that into absolute, arbitrary power. The only obstacle that remains is the judiciary. This is their plan to make the

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/25/scientists-trump-agenda
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#trump

It is scientists' duty to resist the persecutor's anti-science and anti-education program.

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/23/veterans-affairs-doge-musk

The bully's attack has strewn chaos in medical care for US veterans.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/17/trump-us-path-educational-authoritarianism

*Trump is setting the US on a path to educational authoritarianism.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/23/california-hummingbird-beak-study

The Anna's Hummingbird species has evolved, in less than a century, to adapt its beak to California's hummingbird feeders, and spread its range as the feeders have spread.

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/25/us-silence-russia-steps-up-attacks-ukraine-highlights-trump-failure

The bully has said nothing about Ukraine lately, but since he was unable to bring about a peace deal (which was probably impossible), he may have lost interest. Or he may have something worse in mind.

[2/3] ignorant of that sentiment. So there is to be a reason. I have two theories: They are afraid that magats will commit violence against them and their relatives. I can understand being afraid of violence, but if that were the only reason, they could quietly resign and be safe. They have deals sewed up to get millions of dollars each, perhaps as consultants to some corporations, if they deliver fully on billionaires' demands. It may be painful to stay the course against public hostility,

[3/3] but once they have crushed democracy and cemented its tomb, they will be sitting pretty.

[1/3] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/23/republicans-fired-federal-employees-congress
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#magat
https://www.stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#30_April_2025_(Republican's_terrified_to_cross_Trump)

*[Republican] Members of Congress are accused of hiding out when workers have sought answers on why their jobs were axed.* Why so Republicans persist so firmly in supporting something they know their constituents loathe? It's not as if they were

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/safety-bill-of-rights-public-petition

US citizens: call on Amazon to accept the union's Safety Bill of Rights, and bring its high worker injury rate down to the usual level for warehouses.

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#corrupter
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/25/trump-crypto-corruption-ethics

The corrupter's cryptocurrencies are a range of opportunities for rich people to pay him off. If we ever have a US government not in the hands of the rich, it should prohibit federal and state officials from owning an investment fund of any kinds.

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully
https://nader.org/2025/05/24/trumps-lying-now-produces-deadly-costly-and-soon-calamitous-consequences/

*[The bully's] Lying Now Produces Deadly, Costly, and Soon Calamitous Consequences.* A list of his most important persistent lies and the damage they do or will soon do.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250308064632/https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/1505178289

(satire) Instead of making English the official language of the US, the US should ban it.

https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/qatar-uae-arms-sale/
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#corrupter

US citizens: call on the Senate to to block weapons sales to Qatar and UAE due to the corrupter's corrupt dealings with both countries. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121